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A person with brown hair in a checkered shirt makes a finger gun gesture near their head, with subtle variations in expression and pose across frames.

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A person with brown hair in a checkered shirt makes a finger gun gesture near their head, with subtle variations in expression and pose across frames.

A person with brown hair in a checkered shirt makes a finger gun gesture near their head, with subtle variations in expression and pose across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eyes change from open to partially closed to closed

Animation Summary

  • The person's eyes transition from open to partially closed to closed while maintaining the finger gun gesture.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair styled with bangs, wearing a dark checkered shirt. The person makes a finger gun gesture with their right hand near their head. In the top-left frame, the person's eyes are open and looking forward; in the top-right frame, the eyes are partially closed; in the bottom-left frame, the eyes are closed. The background is dark. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

A person with brown hair in a checkered shirt makes a finger gun gesture near their head, with subtle variations in expression and pose across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904151915001874845191
  • 20090415191611259665707

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair checkered shirt finger gun
  • eyes open partially closed closed
  • pixelated dark background
  • buddy icon animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a grid of three visible frames with a fourth frame partially visible on the right

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

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  • brown hair
  • checkered shirt
  • finger gun gesture
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • eyes open
  • eyes partially closed
  • eyes closed
  • subtle expression changes

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090415191611259665707
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904151915001874845191
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e6/e6a2b5a492fa9a94bf46c04b6c22cbf92a95a04fb47ca64441513693c2c10aa4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
e6a2b5a492fa9a94
SHA-256
e6a2b5a492fa9a94bf46c04b6c22cbf92a95a04fb47ca64441513693c2c10aa4
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.123700

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001227

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001227falseself-harm0.000502falseself-harm/intent0.000216falsesexual0.000062falseviolence/graphic0.000022falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150823

OpenAI category scores

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A person with brown hair in a checkered shirt makes a finger gun gesture near their head, with subtle variations in expression and pose across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,490 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,155, response 802

Review tags

  • making finger gun gesture (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • making finger gun gesture

Animation

  • eyes change from open to partially closed to closed

Animation Summary

  • The person's eyes transition from open to partially closed to closed while maintaining the finger gun gesture.

Colors

  • brown
  • dark blue
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair styled with bangs, wearing a dark checkered shirt. The person makes a finger gun gesture with their right hand near their head. In the top-left frame, the person's eyes are open and looking forward; in the top-right frame, the eyes are partially closed; in the bottom-left frame, the eyes are closed. The background is dark. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

A person with brown hair in a checkered shirt makes a finger gun gesture near their head, with subtle variations in expression and pose across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904151915001874845191
  • 20090415191611259665707

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair checkered shirt finger gun
  • eyes open partially closed closed
  • pixelated dark background
  • buddy icon animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a grid of three visible frames with a fourth frame partially visible on the right

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • checkered shirt
  • finger gun gesture
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • eyes open
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  • subtle expression changes
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Full source records (2)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20090415191611259665707
Archive entry
20090415191611259665707.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090415191611259665707.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090415191611259665707.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200904151915001874845191
Archive entry
200904151915001874845191.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904151915001874845191.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904151915001874845191.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016